I looked it up but I still don’t understand, if the cells in liquid are jiggling around, shouldn’t they need to condense to become a solid? Like how if you have a bunch of packing peanuts, if you shake the box, they’ll move around a lot, whereas, if you squish them down into a block, they’ll condense, and not move. Sorry that’s the best analogy I could think of I just don’t get it.
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The reasons why water expands when it freezes, unlike most liquids which contract, is poorly understood, even by chemists and physicists. It’s an area of ongoing research.
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